4. Palaeography
MS in Latin on lead, Tarlton, Gloucestershire, England, ca. 150-300, 1 tablet, 3,5x11,0 cm, 6 lines in Late Roman cursive.
MS in Latin on wood, Walbrook, London, early 2nd c., 1 tablet, 5x15 cm, 4-5 lines in old Roman cursive.
MS in Latin on vellum, Germany?, ca. 900, 23 lines in a sloping Carolingian minuscule by an Insular scribe, 8 lines of rustic capitals, letters in the 2 first words in large capitals in painted gold, a full page initial F, in red with interlace ornament infilled with green and red.
MS in Latin on bronze, Roma, 7 January 246, 23 lines in rustic Latin capitals, 2 holes through the tablet for a wire that originally bound the two tablets together, secured with the seals of the 7 witnesses.
MS in Latin on bronze, Roma, 26 February 70, 2 tabellas (complete), 2 holes through each tablet with the wire that binds the two tablets together, originally secured with the seals of the 7 witnesses, 2 holes with complete hinge wires.
MS in Etruscan on bronze, Vulchi, Etruria, Italy, mid 4th c. BC, 1 mirror, diam. 18 cm, engraved names in Etruscan script, with engravings of high quality of the Judgement of Paris from Homer's Iliad.
MS in Greek on vellum, Byzantine Empire, ca. 1100, 1 f., 22x16 cm, single column, (17x12 cm), 6 lines in Greek minuscule, 2 miniatures (ca. 12x12 cm) in gold and colours within a gold frame ruled in blue and red.
MS in Greek on vellum, Byzantine Empire, late 10th c., 1 f., 33x19 cm, 2 columns, (25x15 cm) 24 lines in a tall late Greek uncial, ecphonetic notation in red and dark brown, 2 initials in red.
MS in Greek (text 1) and Latin (text 2) on vellum, Caesarea?, Turkey, ca. 1100 (text 1), and Firenze, Italy, mid 15th c. (text 2), 8 lines in humanistic book script by the librarian of S. Marco library, Firenze.
MS in Greek on papyrus, Egypt, 2nd c., 1 partial f. and 2 fragments of a scroll, 25x11 cm, 1 column remaining, column width ca. 6,5, (20x10 cm), 36 lines in a fine Greek uncial.
MS in Greek and Arabic (text 2) on vellum, Byzantine Empire, 9th c., 2 ff., 18x13 cm, single column, (15x11 cm), 22 lines in a sloping Greek half uncial ("mixed script") ; text 2: Palestine/Damascus, 13th c., 3 lines in Arabic naskhi script.
MS in Greek on papyrus, Egypt, 3rd c., 1 partial f., 25x14 cm, text 1: 3 columns, 33 lines in Greek cursive documentary script; text 2: single column, part of 11 lines in an irregular Greek half-uncial.